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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Dye, Dye Again

Not all of my dye adventures come out as expected. I took an off-white denim vest from the U•turn Swap with the intention of dyeing it a darker color. I treated it with RIT Dark Green dye and got….

70’s denim blue.

I can think of two possible explanations for the unexpected color:

1. I didn’t leave the garment in the dye bath long enough (I made a timing error and the washer started draining after 15 minutes instead of the recommended 30), so the blue dye penetrated but the yellow dye didn’t.

The vest looks cool. I liked how matched the shoes to the pop of green in the scarf. Nice mix of color and patterns as usual. Hav you ever though about going into interior decorating b/c you have a great eye?